Lithium niobate fibers and waveguides: Fabrications and applications

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1962-1974

  Yin, Shizhuo ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron beam lithography; Focused ion beam lithography; Holographic storage; Lithium niobate; Photorefractive crystal; Photorefractive fiber; Spatial light modulator; True time delay line; Wavelength filter

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; ELECTROOPTICAL MATERIALS; HOLOGRAPHY; ION BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; LIGHT MODULATORS; LITHIUM NIOBATE; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

HOLOGRAPHIC STORAGE; PHOTOREFRACTIVE FIBERS; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS;

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0033221823     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.796358     Document Type: Article

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29. Shizhuo Yin K(Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from Pennsylvania State University, University Park, in 1993. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Pennsylvania State University. In the fast five years, he published over 40 refereed journal papers, contributed chapters for six books, and co-edited several books. His major research areas are photonic devices, fiber optic sensors and communications, optical metrology, pattern recognition, and medical optics. Dr. Yin co-chaired the SPIE Conference on Photorefractive Fibers, Crystals, Materials, and Applications. He is listed in Strathmore's Who's Who.